Sunday, November 2, 2008
introdution
On April 7, 1915 a famous blues/ jazz singing was born Billie Holiday. Even though she was not given the name Billie Holiday instead given the name Eleanora Fagan Gough. Her parents was very young when she was born her mother only thirteen and father only fifteen they not married so she was given the mother’s last name. Her father was a trumpet player who called her bill because she was a tomboy so as time went on eventually she called herself Billie then taking her father last name given her the name Billie Holiday.
Revised Thesis statement
Billie Holiday was famous blues and jazz singer. Though her music she inspired many people and made many accomplishment. Though years and years she went though trial and error with some good out comes and not so good outcomes and her songs that she sang actually became her reality.
anntotations part 2 NHD
1) Lady Sings the BluesBillie Holiday, with William Duffy. New York: Penguin, 1995
This book explains Her recording career is divided into 3 periods. The first is the aforementioned period in the 1930s, recorded with Columbia, marked by her time with Wilson, Goodman, and Young. Her music was made for jukeboxes, but she turned them into jazz classics. Her popularity never matched her artistic success, but she was widely played on Armed Forces Radio during World War II. From this period came the anti-racism song Strange Fruit, in which she paints a terrifying picture of lynched black bodies hanging from trees. The lyrics of the song were adapted from a poem by Louis Allen.
2) Billie’s Blues: The Billie Holiday Story, 1933-1959Chilton John. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1989.
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his book tells how Billie Holiday worked with many jazz greats including Count Basie and Benny Goodman. She sang in small clubs, large concert halls, and the film New Orleans. She even arranged and composed her own songs such as "I Love My Man" and "God Bless the Child." Many people mourned the loss of "Lady Day" when she died in New York at the age of 44.
3) Wishing On the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie HolidayClarke Donald. New York: Penguin, 1995.This book explains how Billie made big transition in he life when she moved to New York City with her mother as a teenager, and began singing professionally around clubs in Harlem, turning heads and making her professional recording debut at age 18. Holiday's voice was unlike that of any other singer at the time, and remains unmatched in style. She never simply sang a melody, but made every song her own by changing phrasing, sharpening or dragging out diction, or adding a little drama to a not-too-dramatic tune. Her music is still enormously popular today.
4) The Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of CommentaryGourse Leslie(ed.). New York: Macmillan, 1997.
This movie explains what she die before she became a singer she worked as a maid and then as a teenage prostitute. According to legend, in 1930 (at the age of 15), to keep her mother from being evicted, she sang Body and Soul and reduced the audience to tears. She began singing in bars and restaurants. Four years later, she made her first record with Benny GoodmanIn 1935, she got her big breakthrough when she recorded four sides, which featured What a Little Moonlight Can Do, and Miss Brown to You. She landed her own recording contract, and while the songs given to her were run-of-the-mill (versus the ones saved for the top white singers), she made the songs classics because of her singing ability.
5) Lady day The many faces of billie Holiday
Meally O’ Robert New York Da capo Press.1991
This book show many pictures tells of many stories of Billie it even tells of the lifetime as a figure of trouble . Lady day has secured a place in the pantheon of American icons. Pop history . Fed by her own autobiography , has canonzied her print and film as the image of the star-as-victim, the heroin addict and dupe of a succession of husband and managers who kept her singing to support themseleves.
This book explains Her recording career is divided into 3 periods. The first is the aforementioned period in the 1930s, recorded with Columbia, marked by her time with Wilson, Goodman, and Young. Her music was made for jukeboxes, but she turned them into jazz classics. Her popularity never matched her artistic success, but she was widely played on Armed Forces Radio during World War II. From this period came the anti-racism song Strange Fruit, in which she paints a terrifying picture of lynched black bodies hanging from trees. The lyrics of the song were adapted from a poem by Louis Allen.
2) Billie’s Blues: The Billie Holiday Story, 1933-1959Chilton John. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1989.
T
his book tells how Billie Holiday worked with many jazz greats including Count Basie and Benny Goodman. She sang in small clubs, large concert halls, and the film New Orleans. She even arranged and composed her own songs such as "I Love My Man" and "God Bless the Child." Many people mourned the loss of "Lady Day" when she died in New York at the age of 44.
3) Wishing On the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie HolidayClarke Donald. New York: Penguin, 1995.This book explains how Billie made big transition in he life when she moved to New York City with her mother as a teenager, and began singing professionally around clubs in Harlem, turning heads and making her professional recording debut at age 18. Holiday's voice was unlike that of any other singer at the time, and remains unmatched in style. She never simply sang a melody, but made every song her own by changing phrasing, sharpening or dragging out diction, or adding a little drama to a not-too-dramatic tune. Her music is still enormously popular today.
4) The Billie Holiday Companion: Seven Decades of CommentaryGourse Leslie(ed.). New York: Macmillan, 1997.
This movie explains what she die before she became a singer she worked as a maid and then as a teenage prostitute. According to legend, in 1930 (at the age of 15), to keep her mother from being evicted, she sang Body and Soul and reduced the audience to tears. She began singing in bars and restaurants. Four years later, she made her first record with Benny GoodmanIn 1935, she got her big breakthrough when she recorded four sides, which featured What a Little Moonlight Can Do, and Miss Brown to You. She landed her own recording contract, and while the songs given to her were run-of-the-mill (versus the ones saved for the top white singers), she made the songs classics because of her singing ability.
5) Lady day The many faces of billie Holiday
Meally O’ Robert New York Da capo Press.1991
This book show many pictures tells of many stories of Billie it even tells of the lifetime as a figure of trouble . Lady day has secured a place in the pantheon of American icons. Pop history . Fed by her own autobiography , has canonzied her print and film as the image of the star-as-victim, the heroin addict and dupe of a succession of husband and managers who kept her singing to support themseleves.
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